On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:35:20AM -0700, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2003 12:04 am, Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that the font size for EToy tiles is specified by
> > StandardScriptingSystem>>fontForTiles, which specifies an 18 point
> > font.  However, the font returned has a #pointSize of 12.  The same
> > font is also obtained from the font menu of a TextMorph by choosing
> > the 12pt version.
> >
> > This seems to be true for quite a number of fonts.  Eg: StrikeFont
> > familyName: #NewYork size: 24 yields a point size of 18.
> 
> 18 points = 24 pixels at 92 pixels/inch?

If you say so :-)

Thanks Ned,
Joshua


> > Is this really the nonsense that it appears to be?  If not, is
> > anyone feeling brave enough to try to enlighten me?
> 
> There is considerable confusion between points and pixels in the 
> image. Add to that the fact that the display resolution is in general 
> unknown, and that there are only a few specific sizes of bitmap 
> fonts, and throw in uncertainties caused by various importers that 
> make guesses about dpi to pixel conversions, and it's a mess.
> 
> We could *really* stand a better way to specify fonts. Anyone know 
> anything about how hard Panose would be to do?
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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